RE: Realite Ou Mensonge?

Hi Ti Malice; articles like that simply remind me that there was a time that Haiti could be use to prove them wrong.

Now we are used as proof of black people's failure.

And yes, I do think that completely unrestrained greed is part of the post-colonial mind of black people.

Maybe this is a defective result from slavery.

I also think there are a few (very few) humanitarian black people out there who can make a difference.

As for Haiti, a Mao kind of plan to teach our population to read and write would solve our illiteracy problem in less than 2 years.

However, instead of Cadres we could simply use some of Rubens Titus's tax dollars to create programs were senior year high school students and freshman college students would be organized to, like the Cadres did, teach basic reading and writing to each household from P-au-P and from Cap to the sea. It could be offered as a program were the government pays for your last school year or your first college year if you spent X amount of hours teaching others to write.

This would need to be tightly monitored, but mostly you would have to get the whole population pumped up about it--this is called teaching civic duty.

In the past Haiti used to have a little book that all students got from school, which taught them about civic duty.

I don't remember under what government that stopped.

I think it was Jean Claude.

Anyway, there's another way this could work.

Still using the Mao type pattern, the government could give the diaspora an incentive to come and teach.

Think of it this way. Offer all members of the diaspora who can read and write French double citizenship in exchange for X hours of teaching Haitians in Haiti to read or write.

There would be a deadline to apply, and all those interested would have to participate within 2 years.

The results are this:
Haitians from all over the world would have a chance to get their citizenship back by doing their civic duty.

It teaches them to value their country while at the same time solving the country's problem.

The reason you have a deadline to apply is that you want all of the teaching to be going on at the same time.

There would also need to be a non-extensive (not hard, but basic) test to see who is actually qualify to teach basic reading and writing in the necessary language.

Either of these programs should be followed by a program that was used successfully in many places called "each one teach one." This is were the person that is being taught to read signs a contract stating that they in turn will teach X amount of other people in their area.

Again, this reduces cost while teaching civic duty, helps people to grasp the concept of "one nation," and begins to eradicate that selfish tendency that Haitians seem to have.
Anyway, something like that might work.

But hey, if I can come up with this just now from reading your post, I'm pretty sure someone else could either add to this plan or come up with an even better one. There are endless creative ways to fix the problem of illiteracy.